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From: Jeremy Faulkner <gldisater@gldis.ca>
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Subject: Re: Looking for commercial code gone open source
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Jeremy Faulkner wrote:
> Jonathon McKitrick wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know where there are any web-accessible examples of large or
>> medium sized commercial software products that have been open sourced?
>>
>> I'd like to see some examples of code that were not written from the
>> beginning with the intention of being open source.
>>
>> jm
> 
> 
> Blender (graphics/blender, www.blender3d.org) was originally a 
> commercial project whose parent company shutdown. Blender was purchased 
> by the community and GPL'd.
> 

The development community for Blender is at www.blender.org, 
blender3d.org is the user community.

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